Author Archives: G Wade Johnson

Plain Text

Tris talks about defaulting to much simpler tools, including plain text in the video [The Plain Text Team](https://youtu.be/WgV6M1LyfNY?si=Rf3xP7sasTtPCmTu). Much of the video is a push to move away from special purpose tools that lock up your knowledge and data, pushing you into a repeated upgrade cycle. He suggests moving to a format that you have… Read More »

AI Replacing Human Coders

No Human Coders in 5 Years? starts with the many predictions that these new LLM tools will replace all programmers. He makes the prediction instead that the best programmers with work with these tools to be better than any ordinary coder. My problem with this narrative is that it still assumes that the LLM tools… Read More »

Event Driven Architecture

I saw a good talk on EDA at work. I’ve seen talks and talked to people who are doing some event-driven stuff, but this talk seemed much more fleshed out. There were a few concepts that came out of this talk that I like: The speaker also recommended a couple of books.

Experience vs Length of Career

I’ve noticed that some companies tend to promote developers too quickly, giving people a Senior title after only a few years of experience. That’s often not enough time to develop a lot of experience. Steve Yegge made an interesting observation about maturity and years of experience in Portrait of N00b. He might have been going… Read More »